我于2020年10月参加了纽约汉服社的一次讲座，讲座开在曼哈顿的一个摩天大楼的会议室里。这堂课清晰地告诉我汉服文化是什么，和怎样在中国大陆以外的地区发展的。

        会议有三个部分：讲座、回答问题、互动环节。

        明亮小姐是纽约汉服社的社长、民族学硕士。一个三十岁左右的女子，她用幻灯片完成了一个很有条理的演讲。

        她由自己的深蓝色汉服叫什么这个问题开场，答案是云服。她关心每一个听众。她请每一个人简短地介绍自己及对汉服的兴趣。接着她展开自己的演讲，一个关于汉服发展的大纲和重点服饰细节的介绍。

        在回答问题的环节中，明亮小姐反应很快。她总是能找出问题的关键并给出直接的回答。她是对自己专业有激情并深耕的内行人。

         参加汉服社讲座的年轻人总共有十个，他们都对中华文化感到痴迷。他们是在纽约生活工作的年轻学生，职业人士。他们表达了对汉服活动的关心和自己热爱汉服的故事。

         会议的主持人问相关问题，并准备了答题礼物。年轻人很了不起。他们中的一些人已经在新年时在纽约时代广场完成了汉服跳舞的活动。年轻人很棒也很可爱。跟这些年轻人在一起我很自豪。他们是中国的希望。

        我喜欢和积极的年轻的男孩女孩一起分享汉服的知识。在两小时里，我像是在中国和许多着迷的朋友一起。虽然我觉得汉服社不是一个适合我的社团。我觉得年轻人选择汉服更多的是爱美和角色扮演的需求，而我更愿意深入了解汉唐朝的历史知识和温习中国文化。我没有很多金钱和时间去专注于汉服服装本身。我愿意参加汉服的仪式祭拜和了解日其文化对国人日常生活的渗透。我愿意参加清明节、寒食节、重阳节的汉服祭拜活动去纪念中国传统。

        更多的我有身份认同的困难，我会有一些复杂的感情和立场来看待关于中美商战，及香港人反中及政府的反抗。

        关于汉服有很多需要说的东西，关于中国人的身份和生活。这不是政治，是我们的身份和认同感。对我来说，这是有意思的一天。

         I took part in one of the interdiction lectures of HANFUSHE in New York, which was holding in a meeting office in a skyscraper in Manhattan in Oct.2019. The lecture and the meeting gave me a clear map about how the Hanfu culture developed in the countries outside China Mainland.

          The meeting include three parts：the introduction speech, the question answer period, and the dynamitic period.

         Ms.Mingliang ,the president of Hanfushe and a Master in Folklore study, a lady in her early 30s, made a well organized speech with a clear PPD.

        She began with a question about what was the name of her dark blue Hanfu, which turned out to be Yunfu. She was concerned about every audience. She invited everyone giving a short introduction for himself/herself about their interest on Hanfu. Then she set up her presentation, a whole guild line of HANFU development and detail-oriented introduction.

       During the question period, Ms.Mingliang was quick-responded, she always got the key point of the question and gave a straight answer. She was a young scholar who was totally addicted in her field.

        There were totally about ten young people who loved Hanfu and were fascinated in Chinese culture.  They were young professional or graduate students who studied in N.Y.

They showed their concern about the activities of HANFUSHE ,and expressed a lot of interesting story about their love for HANFU.

          The host of the meeting made some dynamic period by asking questions and a gift for a good answer. The young people they were amazing. Some of them had already done some HANFU dance in Times square on New Year Eve before.  The young people were amazing and lovely. I was proud to be with so many elegant and self-concerned young ones. They were Chinese’ hope.

       l liked the moment of sharing the understanding of Hanfu clothing knowledge with some young and active Chinese girls and boys. During the two hours, I was like being in China with some fascinating friends. While I still was clear that HANFUSHE  was not a club for me. I figured out the young people chose HANFU more as a way of playing or cosplay, while I preferred to know better about the Han dynasty and all Chinese culture. I did not have so many free money and time to focus on HANFU clothes. I preferred to take part in the ceremony with Hanfu and daily life it could be involved in. I would like to take part in the ceremony of Qingming Festival, Hanshi Festival, Chongyang Festival to memorize our Chinese tradition.

           Furthermore I felt a little embraced that I did not own a Chinese citizenship now. I had complicated feeling about the Chinese-America trading conflict, about the Hongkongese’s fight with the local government.

         There is a lot of thing which are needed to be talked about Hanfu, about our Chinese identity and life. It’s not a political stuff, it is our identity and status.It was an interesting day for me.